Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Family Adventures in Utah

 Our grandchildren love their trampoline!
 Luke
 Maggie, Luke, Drew, and Billy
 Drew is such a "ham" :-).

 Goofy kids!


 Train trip to Salt Lake





 A visit to Temple Square...a replica of the Salt Lake Temple

 Will and our grandchildren in front of the Salt Lake Temple

 Beautiful flowers on the temple grounds


 Angel Moroni




 Organ recital in the historic tabernacle built by the pioneers


 The old tabernacle

 Salt Lake Temple
 Drew and Luke



 Will and his children in front of the Statue of Christ at Temple Square in Salt Lake City
 Bill and Becky with Will and our grandchildren
 Bill and Becky
 The beautiful Christos!


 Bill and Luke
 Trip to a nearby Wildlife Refuge

 The boardwalk was amazing!


 The next tower looked like a castle in the distance!

 Billy watching ducks
 Maggie
 Walking toward the tower
 A Northern Harrier in the distance

 Two Sandhill Cranes flew over our heads at the top of the tower!

 Bill, Drew, Billy, Maggie and Luke
 Drew
 View from the tower
 Bill and the grandchildren
 Billy
 Papa giving Luke a back rub

 Day trip to Antelope Island; the water in the Great Salt Lake was very low!
 Billy
 Drew, Billy, Luke
 Buffalo
 There are antelope in this picture
 Luke spotted this meadowlark
 The kids wanted to explore the salt flats

 Oops! Billy sank into the stinky mud!
 Tiny flowering plants growing out of the salt flat
 I took the kids to one of their favorite parks where they had a nurf gun war :-).



 Then they played in the "castle"








 I like to buy the kids something special. They usually choose legos :-).
 Munching Maggie :-)
 Bill and Will built shelves in the garage.
 Another trip to a different favorite park
 Luke
 Drew and Luke by the creek
 Great fun!
 Drew
 Maggie
 Drew
 Luke
 Drew
 Drew
 Luke
 Drew
 Luke made some new friends :-)
 Maggie and Drew
 Maggie
 Luke
All good things must come to an end. We had a wonderful time with these grandchildren and their parents!!!